Simon_says

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by Simon_says 9y ago
Is your argument that agents are so expensive that hiring them necessitates taking out a 30-year loan? That's not a great argument. I don't think the time horizon of the mortgage is relevant. 3-month's income is 3-month&#x2
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by Simon_says 9y ago
That's a tough question, and now I'm not so sure I can defend my opinion. It just comes from the fact that (today) the output will not be as good as a human writer. It's disingenuous to pass off a low quality product as a h
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by Simon_says 9y ago
I guess thanks for not calling me evil.
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by Simon_says 9y ago
You can't perfectly preserve your culture when you let in immigrants on the scale that, say, Germany is. It's sort of a sliding scale; the more you let in, the more you change. Europe will be changed for this. As you should be a
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by Simon_says 9y ago
Please at least make an attempt to try to understand the other side. When any immigrants come, they change the country they immigrate to. With these particular refugees, they're refugees in no small part because of shortcomings their
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by Simon_says 9y ago
I want to believe that this result was foreseeable. I want to believe that some people at least are wise enough to see consequences of actions. Can you point to some piece of writing explaining this prior to or contemporaneous with the US
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by Simon_says 9y ago
I feel differently. I think there's a place for information that people would like to read as prose but the economics don't make sense to pay someone to write it. I feel like this is an advance that's increasing the wealth
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by Simon_says 9y ago
I would add prevention to your list as a primary justification, because people in jail cannot simultaneously be committing crimes on the outside.
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by Simon_says 9y ago
I don't know about the serverless part, but wasn't this the promise of Diaspora?
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by Simon_says 9y ago
I fully expect torrenting to be made impossible or obscenely impractical and cumbersome inside the next couple decades. The rightsholders are too politically connected, and the general populace too apathetic and ignorant.
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by Simon_says 9y ago
Not exactly equivalent . The Copenhagen Interpretation has a pretty big theoretical hole in that the condition for when a wavefunction collapse occurs is not defined within the theory itself. Supposedly collapse occurs during a "meas
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by Simon_says 9y ago
That fee could easily be 3-6 months salary. That's a hefty price to pay for culture and piece of mind.
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by Simon_says 9y ago
Yea, that's exactly what I'm implying. As for the basis for it -- I'm not sure how to put it. Every other interpretation is deeply confused, but MWI gives a deterministic, algorithmic, and non-mysterious explanation. MWI ma
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by Simon_says 9y ago
Copenhagen isn't even a proper theory, because it never tells you precise criteria for when wavefunction collapse occurs. It's not a surprise that nobody noticed this at the time, because the Copenhagen Interpretation was invente
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by Simon_says 9y ago
The Pilot Wave Interpretation is one of the strangest contortions I've ever seen. You go to all the trouble to set up the wave equation acting on phase space of the entire universe, but then you remember that you think particles are f
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by Simon_says 9y ago
Feynman said that quote in 1965, and it may have been true when he said it. The Many-Worlds Interpretation was technically invented before then (1957), but was a fringe theory and not disseminated much prior to the 1980s. I don't thi
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by Simon_says 9y ago
Do you have a reference for this? I'd enjoy reading further.
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by Simon_says 9y ago
You want me to go on Twitter to read something longer ?
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by Simon_says 9y ago
Well, not me, because I use the analogy to metals to not invest in crypto currency either. They're non-productive assets. I stick to stocks, bonds, and real estate.
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by Simon_says 9y ago
In my opinion, what it means is that you can expect lower than historically average returns on investments over the next decade or so. This could mean a crash followed by normal returns or just pitiful yet slow and steady growth -- no way
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by Simon_says 9y ago
The correct analogue of cryptocurrency is not USD (because of the bullets and bombs you mention), but rather precious metals, particularly gold and silver. Yes, the metals do have practical applications, but that does not account for the m
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by Simon_says 9y ago
The way I see it, all asset classes are inflated: stocks are at nosebleed P/E ratios, bonds have next to no yield, house prices are once again at historic levels, and Silicon Valley unicorns are again getting unrealistic valuations.
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by Simon_says 9y ago
The number of people in Santa Cruz, Bolivia who have set foot on an airplane is probably comparably to the number in Santa Cruz, CA.
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by Simon_says 9y ago
What are the units of the x-axis? And what is the source of the data? Such terrible graph design never should have made the front page.